These facts, and many more, render the foreign corre- spondents,
who were at first certain of an acquittal, doubtful of the issue of the trial. The President of the Court. Martial, Colonel Jouaust, apparently wishes to convict if he can, and actually put words into the mouth of Madame Henry. She was about to give the name of the officer to whom her husband had alluded when be said, "You know in whose interest I have acted," when the President, interposing, sug- gested that Henry must have meant France, and the suggestion was caught at by his widow. The President has also declared that at present he has no official knowledge of the order of the Court of Cassation limiting the scope of the inquiry. The remainder of the officers sit impassive, the only 'sign on their part of human feeling being given when an official account of the tortures inflicted on Dreyfus in the Ile du Diable was read aloud. It seems as yet, therefore, as if the Court had made up its mind not to acquit, but it must be recollected that the evidence for the defence has not yet been produced. Still, the news of the week must be accepted as, on the whole, unfavourable to the prisoner, whose self-command begins to give way under the stream of insults, especially from General Mercier and General Roget. He shook his fist in the face of the former, and protested that the calumnies of the latter, who, in spite of Esterhazy's confession, reiterated his belief that Dreyfus wrote the bordereau, were more than he could endure.
